/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.13627837]

Does /ck/ ever go foraging?
Sounds like fun, wondering what's /ck/'s experience foraging is

[Anonymous No.13627843]

>>13627837
I would if there was any nature

[Anonymous No.13627851]

I don't really but if I'm on a hike and I see wild plums or wild garlic I'll eat it.

[Anonymous No.13627855]

A little bit. Just stuff like blue berries. I have a black walnut tree in my yard but fuck those fuckers are a pain to shell. I wanna do more mushrooming I'm just kinda scared by it.

[Anonymous No.13627863]

Not much to forage where I live now, but I pick a few apples and blackberries when they're in season, and loads of wild garlic in Summer.

[Anonymous No.13627875]

>>13627837
just for morels in the spring

[Anonymous No.13627882]

>>13627837
Sometimes when I come across a sleeping hobo I take his food
I don't eat it or anything I just walk to the nearest bin and dump it
Also I steal avocados from my neighbor

[Anonymous No.13627892]

>>13627837
Yeah I forage my city for half eaten food and collect fresh water from puddles in the road.

[Anonymous No.13627895]

>>13627837
There's a fair amount of forageable here, and plenty of waterfront nature reserves. Good dandelion, wood sorrel, cat's ears and dead nettle as well as a bunch of other plants and berrys.

[Anonymous No.13627900]

>>13627837
Sometimes. My gfs a hippy and collects all kinds of shit for tinctures and oils and lotions but I only really pick berries or mushrooms. Wild plums and garlic are good too like >>13627851 said

[Anonymous No.13627904]

>>13627882
>Sometimes when I come across a sleeping hobo I take his food

>thinks hobos actually have food on them

probably was one of his kids.

[Anonymous No.13627906]

>>13627855
Just get a book. A lot of imitations are east to spot and the ones that arent just dont touch them. Morels and boletes and lobsters and general shit are easy

[Anonymous No.13627931]

>>13627837
mostly for these and maybe some chantarelles too

[Anonymous No.13628009]

>>13627837
There's maybe 200kcal in that basket, and they spent over 50kcal collecting it, and most of it still requires significant preparation

[Anonymous No.13628011]

Yeah for mushrooms

[Anonymous No.13628015]

>>13628011
My favorite thing to do with black trumpets is shredding them over fried eggs

[Anonymous No.13628021]

>>13628011
Black trumpets look so non edible to most people it's great since no one will touch them

[Anonymous No.13628041]

>>13628021
They look weird but feel soft. Black trumpets are hard to see in the first place so you dont really have to worry about them getting picked. Most people in Anglo countries are too scared to try a wild mushroom at all, even if you google the info with pics and show it to them. Unless they buy it from a hipster grocery store, they are too scared to even touch a mushroom. Other Euros and Asians usually have good mushroom knowledge though.

[Anonymous No.13628056]

>>13627837
i would but i dont know how to do it. is there a guide or something?

[Anonymous No.13628058]

>>13628015
Cute strobilomyces. There's a colony that produces a regular crop in my yard every autumn. They're great.

>>13628021
Must be fucking nice, my patches frequently get invaded by dumb fucks who can't into private property. Too many people have caught on to how good they are.

[Anonymous No.13628096]

>>13628058
Thanks they're one of my favorite ones to find

[Anonymous No.13628655]

yes

[Anonymous No.13628670]

>>13627837
Does dumpster diving count?

[Anonymous No.13628674]

>>13627837
When I was a kid me and my cousins had a cabin in the far north of Canada, our parents would give us small buckets and tell us to find berries that grew wild all around the surrounding woods. We found tons of strawberries and saskatoon berries and we would eventually make pie out of them. It was nice in the 90’s when you could allow little children to roam freely for hours and never worry for them, we also ran into animals and just minded our business and they usually just fucked off, except for one time my idiot cousin punched a beaver in the back of the head for hissing at us.

[Anonymous No.13628774]

Mostly for mushrooms, berries and nuts during the right seasons.
I like using blackberries to make blackberry and apple crumble.
I've also taken to using hazelnuts to make hazel nut infused vodka.

[Anonymous No.13628786]

>>13627837
I started foraging hen of the woods mushrooms last fall, great tasting mushroom and very easy to identify. Next summer I'm gonna try to identify some gilled mushrooms and branch out though.

[Anonymous No.13629011]

>>13627837
Just started today. Found some yummy-looking wood sorrel by my fence, threw it in a stew that is almost done cooking.

[Anonymous No.13629286]

>>13627837
when i lived in Humboldt, there were often wild blackberries growing around, and I'd eat those if they weren't near a major street. unsurprisingly, there are a lot of people out there that forage for psilocybins, but i never tried and would have been worried about poisoning myself since i know jack shit and cant trust anywhere there to know what theyre talking about

[Anonymous No.13629343]

>>13628674
>except for one time my idiot cousin punched a beaver in the back of the head for hissing at us.

That is the single most Canadian sentence I’ve read in my life

[Anonymous No.13629359]

Raspberries and blackberries if I’m hiking and see them growing.

My university campus had wild grapes growing all over it, some were a little sour but otherwise pretty good, especially later in the fall when they’d get nice and sweet.

That and in the springtime I’ll harvest dandelions and goldenrod to make teas with. Is it still foraging if it’s just within your backyard?

[Anonymous No.13629437]

>>13629359
Most foragers start in their backyards. I live in the Southeast so there is a lot of edible things in the woods. I love cooking things I hunt with things I forage.

[Anonymous No.13629496]

>>13627837
A lot of these grow in my local area. When they're in season, my nephew and I go pick them. It's a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.13631194]

>>13628655
wtf? did u find a dead bear or did u kill it? :(

[Anonymous No.13631280]

I fucking love foraging, if only because it gives me something to do while walking the dog. Picked maybe 40-50kg of chantarelles, terracotta hedgehogs, black and yellow trumpets (so fucking good) and various other bits and pieces.

[Anonymous No.13631297]

>>13627837
I tried to get into it this summer, finding edible mushrooms was easy as fuck but I couldn’t catch a fish or trap an animal to save my life :(

[Anonymous No.13631347]

>>13627837
Only ever foraged mushrooms, shit's a blast when you find a good chanterelle spot.

[Anonymous No.13632042]

>>13631194
i killed it

[Anonymous No.13632147]

>>13632042
nice

[Anonymous No.13632161]

I got into an argument on here with a guy who picked his own mushrooms a while back. Mf was trying to argue that driving over an hour each way to the forest to forage for unknown fungi was somehow better than just picking up mushrooms at the supermarket. He even had tubs of the things as if he would be able to eat all of that. So no. I dont forage

[Anonymous No.13632195]

>>13632161
>muh cost efficiency
what if it also doubles as a hike and exercise?

[Anonymous No.13632199]

>>13632042
Now eat its liver. Like you're supposed to.

[Anonymous No.13632225]

>>13627837
yes, I know of one spot that has chanterelles that I hit every year. With spring time coming around I'd like to expand my range - I know there's fiddleheads in the swamp near my parents' house, might try for those

[Anonymous No.13632304]

>>13632199
I eat every part except the cock, balls, paws and gall bladder. I sell those to the chinks.

[Anonymous No.13632529]

>>13628041
whats that one in your photo?

[Anonymous No.13632850]

>>13632161
>mutts
ok retard

[Anonymous No.13632869]

>>13632304
i wish i were married to someone like you :(

[Anonymous No.13632880]

I'd love to but everything wild in Australia is poisonous and the mushrooms have deadly twins that only a mycologist can identify by studying the spores.

[Anonymous No.13634032]

>>13632304
unbelievably based, there's no bears in my country so I've never eaten it before. What does it taste like anon?
If you were curious, Kangaroo is somewhere between lamb and rabbit with a slight fishiness to it

[Anonymous No.13634063]

>>13632304
do you skin it and wear its coat as a coat and the head as a hat?

[Anonymous No.13634713]

>>13632304
Cool. Glad to see this board isn't all pussies.
Post bear dishes / make a thread.

[Anonymous No.13634740]

i live in israel (yeah yeah) and forage sage, rosemary and mulberries regularly. feels bretty good cooking with foraged ingredients.

[Anonymous No.13634761]

>>13628655
He picked a beautiful place to die.
I hope when my time comes I can be so lucky.

[Anonymous No.13634793]

>>13632161
>He even had tubs of the things as if he would be able to eat all of that.
Yeah, if only you could pickle them or something

[Anonymous No.13634808]

>>13632161
Some people enjoy walking around in the forest even if there's no monetary gain from it.
I think I know the guy you're talking about too, and he got some flack for bragging about how he picked the place clean. Foraging is great but I kind of agree that you shouldn't be too greedy with it.

[Anonymous No.13634963]

>>13632161
He’s not wrong, depending on the time of year you can go pick hundreds of dollars worth of gourmet mushrooms

[Anonymous No.13634976]

>>13634713
It’s a black bear not brown, things a harmless pest animal just like deer

[Anonymous No.13635168]

>>13634976
they're not an endangered species then? Not Amerikwan just assumed bears wouldn't be doing so well

[Anonymous No.13635276]

>>13627837
morels my nigga.

no I won't tell you where I find them fuck off

[Anonymous No.13635284]

>>13634976
what do you hunt with? I'd guess you need a 30-06 or equivalent rifle to safely one shot a fucking bear. my grandfather hunted moose with a 30-06 with 220gr solid bullets, he said he sometimes had to shoot it twice

[Anonymous No.13635286]

>>13632304
>except the cock
coward

[Anonymous No.13635287]

I have a huge garden. I sometimes forage for herbs and mushrooms, pine nuts and madrones when its the season.

[Anonymous No.13635912]

>>13634032
>>13634713
the meat is smoked so it tastes kind of smokey. the best bear dish is deep fried chunks of fat.

[Anonymous No.13635922]

>>13635912

[Anonymous No.13636459]

I forage thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, summer savory and juniper berries. All my herbes de Provence directly from Provence.
>tfw

[Anonymous No.13636677]

>>13635912
I could see it making a fine sausage with all that fat. Kind of a waste deep frying it imho.

[Anonymous No.13636945]

>>13636677
Its just the by product of making grease which is used for a lot of things, mostly as fuel for oil lamps.

[Anonymous No.13638298]

>>13629437
Now that you mention it, I did find wild dill weed growing in the backyard. My brother and I identified it because of all the little filaments all over it, and when it was crushed and tasted, it had that zesty, savoury dill taste and aroma to it.

We ended up blending it with some parsley, minced garlic and olive oil to serve over barbecued salmon, to great success.

Pic related, dill weed.

[Anonymous No.13638303]

>>13629496
What exactly are these? They look like raspberries but I know they’re not. Raspberries don’t grow that way.

[Anonymous No.13638307]

>>13634740
>sage, rosemary and mulberries

With some common spirits and a little trial and error, I feel like you could make some damn good cocktails with these. I’m gonna write down those three ingredients and see what happens.

[Anonymous No.13638316]

>>13627931
delicious ellbiems

[Anonymous No.13638321]

I actually went on a first date today with a girl to go foraging. I do it quite frequently, the foraging part. Mushrooms, prickly pears, different plants, anything. I always incorporate them to my cooking. Located in socal.


>>13638316
IYKY, lmao testy ellbiems.

[Anonymous No.13638397]

Found a shit ton of ramps last spring. Looking forward to going back and getting more because they were so great in eggs and in pasta. Might try making a pesto this year

[Anonymous No.13639791]

I est stuff i find
Is that what you mean?

[Anonymous No.13640237]

Tried stinging nettles a couple times, I guess they're supposed to be nutritious or something but they taste like almost nothing at all and have an odd sandpapery texture.

[Anonymous No.13641725]

>>13640237
Dry them and incorporate them into a tea.

[Anonymous No.13641738]

>>13627837
I haven't gone foraging in awhile. I have a jar of zellers boletes packed in salt from several years ago that has probably gone bad. On of these days I'll either throw it out or get drunk enough to try them.

[Anonymous No.13641755]

>>13638397
dont abuse em ramps take forever to grow

[Anonymous No.13642403]

>>13627837
I occasionaly forage for raspberries, malvaviscus, bird eggs, pine needles and some herbs I don't even know the name of to make tea
>>13632304
>t. Makkanakuru Yaunkur Kunnecup
Now do an iomante and don't waste any of it
And based, we don't hear much of people like you nowadays

[Anonymous No.13642414]

>>13629011
rip anon

[Anonymous No.13642471]

>>13638303
Its a type of raspberry.

[Anonymous No.13642574]

>>13638298
DILL WEED LMAO

[Anonymous No.13642619]

Foraging is extremely risky where i live. We're a former gold/diamond mining town and we have really bad arsenic contamination everywhere. Mushrooms have to be picked several hundred miles away, berries about 100 as a rule.

It works out, since we also have severe forest fires and that means good mushrooms.
I just pick the wild raspberries in my yard and hope i dont die.